Just came across this philosophical application of quantum entanglement. I have been, late in my life, considering how metaphor can have significant effects on perception. Mostly because I have begun to appreciate that the greatest disability one can have is one of perception.
Having my own limitations, neurological, cultural, historic and situational, I know it’s not a matter of simply, building a ramp, overpass, changing my rhetoric, hairstyle or allegiances or zapping my brain, chemically or otherwise.
Using the example of building a ramp may be a good way to overcome stairs for someone with a wheel chair. But seeing a ramp as an elegant rise to an entrance changes the REAL handicap of seeing someone with wheels as being different.
“Metaphors are just metaphors” but to loosely quote Jonathon Keats, “…what happens if you apply it (a metaphor) literally in your life…Much of the discussion of quantum physics happens metaphorically (because it’s so weird). When applied to different ways we can relate to each other…much of the way we relate to each other on a day to day basis doesn’t work so well…taking the quantum realm, the metaphors used to explain how quantum particles interact and applying those metaphors literally, in our lives, we may realign the way in which we live.”
I have no idea how to use this in my mini book “Words Made of Glass” but because I walk around and surf the net with the story in my head I find I notice things that sort sound like what I’d like to do with the story.
I had an artist friend once who would blurt out wonderful observances. He lived in cabin on 100 acres of Cambrian Shield in Quebec. He said he noticed that once he saw a yellow flower in the woods next thing you know he saw them every where!
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